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Justice Dept. Probing Whether Gonzales Lied - The Justice Department's inspector general indicated yesterday that he is investigating whether departing Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales gave false or misleading testimony to Congress, including whether he lied under oath about warrantless surveillance and the firings of nine U.S. attorneys. (READ MORE)
Inspectors Find Decade-Old Iraqi Chemical Gas in U.N. Office - U.N. weapons inspectors stumbled upon evidence of Saddam Hussein's elusive weapons of mass destruction: a vial of potentially lethal chemical gas that was stored in a U.N. shipping crate in Midtown Manhattan more than 10 years ago and forgotten... (READ MORE)
Taliban Ambushes Pakistani Convoy, Seizes 100 Troops - In an audacious display of force, Taliban fighters on Thursday ambushed a convoy of military vehicles in a remote tribal area and took more than 100 Pakistani troops hostage, local officials said. (READ MORE)
Reid Opens Door to Pact With Antiwar Republicans - Saying the coming weeks will be "one of the last opportunities" to alter the course of the war, Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) said he is now willing to compromise with Republicans to find ways to limit troop deployments in Iraq. (READ MORE)
Sadr May Revoke 'Freeze' on Militia - Radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr told his followers Thursday that he would rescind his order "freezing" the operations of his powerful militia if military raids on his offices did not cease in the next few days, according to officials of Sadr's organization. (READ MORE)
Marriages Split al Qaeda Alliance - Iraq's Sunni tribes began turning against al Qaeda when the largely foreign-run terrorist group tried to arrange forced marriages with local women to secure a foothold in the country, according to a top counterterrorism adviser. (READ MORE)
Republicans Slam Islamic Society Convention - Republican lawmakers are urging the Justice Department not to participate in a convention held by a group named as an unindicted co-conspirator in a terrorism-financing case. (READ MORE)
Iowa Gay 'Marriage' Law Struck Down - A county judge yesterday struck down Iowa's law defining marriage as the union of a man and a woman and ordered local officials to process marriage licenses for six gay couples. (READ MORE)
Bush's War Support Rising? - The White House believes it has made significant progress in swaying public opinion for a continued U.S. military effort in Iraq, a key presidential adviser said. (READ MORE)
Obama Needs Early Win to Get Black Vote - Sen. Barack Obama's campaign says he must win either the Iowa caucuses or New Hampshire's primary to show black voters influential in ensuing primaries that he's a legitimate candidate. (READ MORE)
N.Zealand Eyes Labels to Fight Obesity - The government should impose "traffic light" labeling to warn consumers about obesity-causing food and drink products if New Zealand companies won't do it voluntarily, a parliamentary committee said Friday. (READ MORE)
Virginia Democrats ask WWMWD? - If John Warner announces his retirement as expected, the big question for Democrats is: What will Mark Warner do? The popular former Democratic governor could decide to seek the vacant Senate seat next year, or try to return to the Executive Mansion in 2009. (READ MORE)
Group Meets to Plan Response to Immigration Raid - A Montgomery County immigrant advocacy group met Thursday to discuss ways to respond to immigration raids as communities across the country crack down on illegal immigrants. The meeting, sponsored by CASA of Maryland, comes three months after the group distributed a controversial pamphlet spelling out the rights of people confronted by immigration authorities. (READ MORE)
From the Front:
Greyhawk: Wearing the Black Flag (4) - One of the obscene amenities available to us G.I.s lounging around over here in Iraq is a huge supply of DVD's available at (ahem) very reasonable prices from local vendors. In addition to just about every hot new movie released in theaters up to yesterday we can obtain disks with multiple older features. Some are conglomerations of Oscar-winners, and the other day for a whopping 2 dollars I picked up one that included Citizen Kane, Gone with the Wind, Casablanca, and a few other gems - including the winner from the list above: The Best Years of Our Lives. (READ MORE)
Matt Sanchez: The statement is worth repeating - Jeff Emanuel wrote a story for the National Review today concerning the recent headline-grabbing announcement that CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric will be going to Iraq. Couric will be touring for 12 days in September and it has caused, as it should, new attention to be cast on combat-zone journalism. (READ MORE)
IraqPundit: A Troublesome Blink - David Ignatius writes in his Thursday WaPo column that in 2005, Iran essentially fixed the Iraqi elections. The CIA was prepared to counter Iran's moves, but -- thanks to Condoleezza Rice and Nancy Pelosi -- the U.S. blinked. “By one CIA estimate," Ignatius writes of the 2005 election, "Iranian covert funding was running at $11 million a week for media and political operations on behalf of candidates who would be friendly to Iran, under the banner of Shiite Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani. (READ MORE)
Badger 6: Still A Gunfight - 0600 Tuesday - computer booting, coffee ground and brewing, into the the TOC - what happened over night? The board that was so often blank, filled with five events and a sixth being written. "What? Did First decide they need to make up for doing Convoy Security the first part of this rotation?" "I guess so, Sir," replied one of the Battle NCOs. "So what do we have?" "Six finds , Sir. One with det." The battle NCO using our slang indicates one detonated while being interrogated. (READ MORE)
Army Girl: Preparing to Leave - My time at this base is soon coming to a close. I have mixed feelings about it. You'll have to forgive me if I post about nothing much more over the course of the next couple of weeks. I'm starting to feel the sadness that is inevitable with leaving a place you've grown to love. I won't have reliable internet for a while. I have no idea how long it will be before I do. I'm not even sure when I'm getting to Afghanistan, but it will be sometime before Turkey Day. Before that, I'll be doing training and various other administrative and medical things. My schedule will be full, I'm sure. (READ MORE)
On the Web:
Amanda Carpenter: Liberals Plan to Gut FISA - The liberal Center for American Progress organized a panel discussion to criticize a newly-passed bill that expands the Bush administration’s wiretapping program under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act on Wednesday. (READ MORE)
John Hawkins: It's Time To Get Over Katrina Already - Two years after Katrina, everywhere you turn, there are people carping, whining, and kvetching. Just why hasn't the pity party for the citizens of New Orleans run out of booze and chips yet? (READ MORE)
Douglas MacKinnon: Hillary Is Right. Republicans Will Win The White House. - In the cesspool that Washington has become, truth and clarity still manage to bubble to the surface on occasion. As Senator Hillary Clinton intensifies and refines her spin, deception, and self-aggrandizement, she inadvertently slipped up in a big way and revealed a truth that will doom her campaign. (READ MORE)
Lorie Byrd: Suppressing the Good News from Iraq - Immediately following September 11, many liberals reflexively and preemptively accused those on the right of questioning their patriotism, before anyone had even had a chance to do so. For a honeymoon period of about six months, as President Bush’s poll numbers skyrocketed in response to his successful handling of the aftermath of the attacks, most liberals held their tongues. (READ MORE)
Oliver North: Offers of Help - If September goes as August ended, this is going to be a very interesting month. On Monday, President George W. Bush told the American Legion in Reno, Nev., that two dangerous strands of Islamic extremism are converging in Iraq, "supported and embodied by the regime that sits in Tehran." He went on to warn that the Iranians "must halt these actions." (READ MORE)
David Limbaugh: Bush Tax Cuts Must Be Extended - Democrats have only two arguments left against extending the Bush tax cuts, but recent data affirm that neither is valid. Sadly, though, Democrats will never abandon their claims because they fit so well into their class warfare template. (READ MORE)
Charles Krauthammer: Washington vs. Maliki - The government of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has had more than 15 months to try to pacify the Sunni insurgency by offering national accords on oil-sharing, provincial elections and de-Baathification. It has done none of these. Instead, Gen. David Petraeus has pacified a considerable number of Sunni tribes with grants of local autonomy, guns and U.S. support in jointly fighting al-Qaeda. (READ MORE)
Mona Charen: Thinking with our Emotions - New Orleans was deeply troubled before Katrina, beset by corruption, high crime rates, poor family structure and a weak economy. Nearly one-third of New Orleans residents had incomes below the poverty level. The schools were abysmal. Some estimates put the dropout rate at 50 percent. Was it any surprise that the state and local officials who presided over what in another context we might label a "failed state" responded so poorly to Hurricane Katrina? (READ MORE)
Burt Prelutsky: Why I'm A Conservative - Every so often I hear from a self-anointed right-wing commissar that I'm not really a conservative simply because he's disagreed with something I wrote. The most annoying aspect of being called on the carpet is that it serves to remind me that some of those on the right can be every bit as dogmatic and self-righteous as the pinheads on the left. (READ MORE)
Jon Sanders: Jesus Christ, You Can't Say That in Our School (Unless You're Cursing) -So according to the wisdom of the public education establishment, a high-school valedictorian should lose her diploma for - not cheating, not plagiarism, but 30 seconds of telling her classmates about her faith in Jesus. (READ MORE)
Herb London: The Subprime Mortgage Market In Perspective - The subprime mortgage market has caused a convulsion on Wall Street with several analysts insisting it foreshadows a deep recession. There is little question that a sharp increase in delinquent mortgage payments has been due to loans made to borrowers with weak credit. (READ MORE)
Kimberly A. Strassel: What Women Want - Hillary has herself. Barack has Oprah. John Edwards has his wife, Elizabeth. And what secret weapon do Republican presidential candidates have to curry the all-important "women's vote"? (Cue silence.) Expect to hear a lot about lady voters over the next few months, though most of it from Democrats. Women make up 60% of the left's primary electorate, and the front-runners are already going to the mat for their vote. It's why Ms. Clinton has six full-time staffers for women's outreach: (READ MORE)
Peggy Noonan: A Time for Grace - What will be needed this autumn is a new bipartisan forbearance, a kind of patriotic grace. This is a great deal to hope for. The president should ask for it, and show it. Gen. David Petraeus, the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, will report to Congress on Sept. 11. From the latest metrics, it's clear the surge has gained some ground. It is generally supposed that Gen. Petraeus will paint a picture of recent decreases in violent incidents and increases in safety. In another world, that might be decisive: It's working, hang on. (READ MORE)
Pete Du Pont: Lottocracy - Resolved: Congress should pass and send to the states for ratification a Constitutional Amendment: Setting a maximum contribution limit any campaign donor--individual, organization, or interest group--may contribute to any Presidential or Congressional candidate; Setting the maximum amount any candidate for President or Congress may spend in primary or general elections; and Setting the maximum amount any independent organization may spend for their own primary or general election campaign advertising. Such was the topic of the annual summer community-center debate in a small town on the coast of Maine. Last year's debate topic was eliminating the Constitution's state Electoral College and having a direct national election of the president. Pretty serious stuff for a small town event. (READ MORE)
John R. Bolton: Pyongyang's Upper Hand - The Six-Party talks on North Korea's nuclear weapons program have now descended into a miasma of "working groups," one of which, on U.S.-North Korea bilateral issues, will meet this weekend in Geneva. It is worth paying attention to the outcome of this gathering. North Korea wants to be taken off the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism and, as soon as possible, to enjoy full diplomatic relations with Washington. (READ MORE)
Steve Shippert: Nothing Lives Long in a Vacuum - As Michael noted, Nothing Lives Long in a Vacuum. That apparently includes “taking up arms against the occupiers.” Muqtada al-Sadr has announced a six month suspension of Mahdi Army activity in Iraq. The question is why, and at least part of the answer is obvious. "Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has ordered a six-month suspension of activities by his Mahdi Army militia in order to reorganize the force, an aide said Wednesday." (READ MORE)
Kim Priestap: Jonah Goldberg on Liberals' Moralizing - Jonah Goldberg has an interesting take on the Larry Craig situation that is spot on when it comes to liberals. Those on the left aren't condemning Larry Craig's supposed lewd conduct but are instead condemning his hypocrisy on the matter. Jonah notes that the hypocrisy that the liberals can't stand about conservatives, failing to live up to every moral standard all the time - in other words - for being human, they, too, engage in moralizing on a regular basis but fail to live up to what they preach: (READ MORE)
Jay Tea: A Little Red Meat For The "Anti-Immigrant" Crowd - Every now and then, a spate of stories will come out that all touch upon one of my "hot buttons" and I'll tie them all together in a bit of a roundup. This morning, it's illegal aliens. First up, Elvira Arellano is still in the news. She's back in her home country of Mexico, but she wants to return to the US. Having sneaked across the border twice, been caught twice, and deported twice, this time she wants to do it differently: she's asking the Mexican government to appoint her an "ambassador for peace and justice." (READ MORE)
Cassy Fiano: So, like, what year was, like, 9-11, like? - Want proof that the nation has forgotten 9-11? It's easy to see that we have in the cut-and-runners, the treachorous rhetoric of liberal politicians, and the devil-may-care attitude towards national security that has permeated the country. But how's this for shocking: a bunch of San Diego State University students couldn't even remember what year it happened! (READ MORE)
Bryan Preston: Marine to sue Murtha over irresponsible Haditha accusations - Remember this: Well, the Marine Corps investigator has now dropped all charges against 3 of the 8 accused Marines in the case, and only one Marine still stands accused of crimes at the scene. The others are charged with various after-the-fact issues that arose from investigations of Haditha, not the events themselves. Murtha’s aim, of course, in accusing the Marines of murder “in cold blood” was to pin the blame on Bush. But in the process of blaming Bush, he slandered those Marines. One of those Marines, Col. Jeffrey Chessani, plans to sue Murtha once he’s exonerated. (READ MORE)
Allahpundit: Rematch: Hanretty vs. Powers II - A million thanks to the bete noire of Fox haters, the high priest of Olby critics, Johnny Dollar, for hooking us up with the clip. I dropped an A-bomb on KP yesterday so I don’t want to risk overkill, but I find it a tad ironic that she’s suddenly concerned about illegals who are posing “a violent danger against us.” She didn’t seem so concerned about the immigration status of violently dangerous illegals like Jose Carranza last week when she hosted H&C. But then, what do I know? I’m just a “nativist” racist. (READ MORE)
Don Surber: Zogby: Most Americans think Iraq can be won - John Zogby’s latest online poll — for UPI — showed 54% of Americans believe that the war in Iraq can be won. Only 34% said the war cannot be won. 11% said the war has already been won! Among Democrats, 66% said Iraq is hopeless. (READ MORE)
Meryl Yourish: Ahmadinejad and the Zionist conspiracy - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has gone into wholehearted ZOG mode. (That’s Zionist Occupation Government, a favorite term of the world’s Jew-haters used on all of the Stormfront-style message boards). The setting: A Swedish artist drew a cartoon of a dog with Mohammed’s head. Muslims are predictably upset, particularly because the Swedish press refuses to kowtow to Muslim demands to apologize and never insult Mohammed again. The Swedish government isn’t, either. (READ MORE)
WonkoKevin: Are blogs predictive, p. 3 - In the first two posts, the conclusion to this question was: you bet. Political blogs can create and rapidly diffuse stories and opinion in a way that MSM cannot. Now let me turn the question around a bit, and ask: Are political bloggers predictive? Everett Rogers was one of our great American thinkers, and his classic book “Diffusion of Innovations” is the bible concerning how both tangible innovations (like a product) and intangible innovations (like an idea) diffuse in a society. He identified that there are different “types” of people per when they adopt: (READ MORE)
Wolf Pangloss: Defiant Heroes and Scapegoats - I don’t get it. Why do Republican politicians go after sinning Republican politicians with such gusto? Teddy Kennedy (D) was supported by Democrats after drunk driving Mary Jo Kopechne to her death by drowning. His nephew Patrick Kennedy (D) was pulled over by DC cops for driving drunk and stoned on pain medications, and somehow escaped getting charged with any crimes. Gerry Studds (D) had sex with a 17-year-old male page, and was cheered for his defiance of the Ethics Committee by his fellow Democrats. Jack Murtha (D) escaped indictment in the Abscam investigations. “Dollar” Bill Jefferson (D) was caught with $90,000 of bribes in his freezer, was re-elected in New Orleans, and still serves in the Congress. (READ MORE)
TigerHawk: Defining diplomacy down - Finally, George W. Bush has secured the support of the "traditional ally" most favored by the American left. You would think the New York Times would be delighted. You would be wrong. Nicholas Sarkozy, George W. Bush, the editors of the New York Times, and I all believe that it would be much preferable for Iran to negotiate away its nuclear fuel cycle and weapons programs, rather than for the mullahs to get an atomic bomb or for some great power or combination thereof to destroy its facilities from the air. The editors of the Times, however, not only believe that the West must use "diplomacy" rather than military action, but that it must be devoid even of threats: (READ MORE)
LawHawk: You Had Your Warnings - I warned about this on August 28th when the deal to free South Korean hostages from the Taliban's grip was announced: The Taliban now have a successful recipe that they can use on other countries to demand their departure from Afghanistan so that they can regain power in the country and restart their plans for an Islamic state from which the likes of al Qaeda can continue operating with impunity. (READ MORE)
A Soldier's Mind: “Quit” Doesn’t Exist In Their Vocabulary - Sgt. Thomas Davis has a special job. His job is to teach young Soldiers about IED’s. It’s a topic that he’s well versed on and has first hand knowledge. In June 2006, near Ramadi, Sgt. Davis lost his leg because of an IED that blew up his Humvee. Sgt. Davis is one of more than 2100 Soldiers working in the Army’s Wounded Warrior (AW2) program. The program was initially established in 2004 as a Disabled Soldier Support System, and is designed to assist and advocate for severely wounded Soldiers and their families. As well, the AW2 program offers help with rehabilitation and transition back into the Army or into the civilian community. Davis never had any thoughts of getting out of the Army, even while he was receiving treatment at Walter Reed. (READ MORE)
The Barnyard: A New Iraq: Updated With Unrelated Romney Good News And Video - Mike Yon's "Ghosts of Anbar Pt.III" is posted and it is a remarkable contrast from his early dispatches from the front filled with combat and IEDs, he has pictures of gardens and palm groves and colorful Iraqi soldiers afraid of nothing that were once trying to kill us and are now trying to emulate our Marines and their code, Semper Fidelis, Always Faithful. That may be the Marine's code it is not that of our defeatocrats in Congress that would abandon the people of Iraq to the thugs of AQ and Iranian proxies. I posted a while back that much of what was going on was as much organized crime and typical gangster thug behaviour as driven by Islamic fundamentalism. (READ MORE)
Dafydd: The Insanity - and Inanity - of Judge-Ordered Same-Sex Marriage - Today, a lowly, puny county judge in Iowa gave the finger to the entire Iowa state legislature, overturned a nine-year old Iowa law, went against the opinion of a majority of Iowans, and set up a confrontation that can only end one way: a state constitutional amendment. Why? Because he felt sorry for gays. Dennis Prager is fond of remarking that compassion is one of the greatest virtues -- when practiced by individuals. But when practiced by government, compassion is more often one of the vilest vices. (READ MORE)
The Belmont Club: Bury Me Upside Down - Robert Kaplan remembers the Vietnam that was meant to be forgotten. It deserves to be read in its entirety, but without giving away the store, here are some excerpts. Maybe in the end there was no such thing as the Vietnam War which historians and polemicists have codified in books. Perhaps there was nothing that remotely resembled the neatly constructed narratives, both pro and antiwar, of the times. All that there is -- all that remains -- is memory. And as Kaplan picked through the memories, I recalled Stephen Pressfield's opening chapter as the dead of Thermopylae crossed the River Lethe, the border of forgetfulness. (READ MORE)
Bear Creek Ledger: Truth is being slimed for Dhimmi’s according to WaPo - It’s hard to keep up with all the new definitions with the Dhimmicrats and it’s lap dog the Washington Post. When some lawmakers recently visited the Green Zone in Baghdad thumbnail bio’s were distributed of the lawmakers. The bio’s inlcuded quotes and how the lawmakers voted on war issues. According to Jonathan Weisman at the WaPo this is now to be considered “sliming”! Lawmakers Describe ‘Being Slimed in the Green Zone’ (READ MORE)
Ed Morrissey: Where Does Hsu Get The Money? - The mystery of Norman Hsu deepens today with a New York Times report on his collapsing cover stories. While the Gray Lady tries to focus on the sudden retreat of Democrats from a man who has raised almost a million dollars for them, the real story comes in the second half of the article -- in which Hsu appears to be a front: “People who met him said they knew only that he ran an apparel business. Efforts to learn more about his trade hit dead-ends yesterday. Visits to companies at addresses listed by Mr. Hsu on campaign finance records provided little information. There were no offices in buildings in New York’s garment district whose addresses were given for businesses with names like Components Ltd., Cool Planets, Next Components, Coopgors Ltd., NBT and Because Men’s clothing — all listed by Mr. Hsu in federal filings at different times.” (READ MORE)
ChickenHawk Express: They Can't Admit They Were Wrong About Haditha - The media is still harping on the “Haditha Massacre”. It is not enough that these young men were subjected to an extreme case of presumption of guilt without a trial. It is not enough that Murtha pronounced the Marines “cold blooded murderers” and accused those in command of a cover up. Despite the FACT that 3 Article 32 hearings have ended in dismissal of charges, the media refuses to admit they were wrong about Haditha. Paul von Zielbauer launched the latest salvo against the heroes in today’s NY Times. (READ MORE)
Jeffrey Imm: ISNA and Jihad: Why DOJ's Involvement in ISNA Conference Sends The Wrong Message - Regarding DOJ's involvement in the ISNA conference, Daveed Gartenstein-Ross states that the thrust of his comments about the recent news story on DOJ's involvement in the ISNA conference is "that many of the attorneys in DOJ's civil rights division are far more dedicated and do a better job than people in the counterterrorism field often give them credit for, and I feel that they took too hard a hit in the initial coverage of DOJ's attendance of the ISNA event." The focus of this blog is on counterterrorism issues and concerns. From a counterterrorism perspective, there are five key facts that are the basis for why DOJ's involvement in the ISNA conference is wrong: (READ MORE)
Matthew Levitt: Yassin al-Qadi: the Hamas Connection - My colleagues Doug Farah and Victor Comras have posted excellent analyses of Yassin al-Qadi on these pages. To further flesh out Qadi's financing activities here in the United States, consider some of the material that came out of the federal civil trial in Chicago Boim V. Quranic Literacy Institute et al. Evidence produced at that trial revealed that FBI investigation concluded that al-Qadi played a central role in financing Hamas through a Chicago land deal and by paying the salary of a confessed Hamas operative. The trial, at which I served as an expert witness, led to a $156 million finding in favor of the Boim family and against QLI, Salah, the Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP) and others. (READ MORE)
Discerning Texan: Corruption and the Clintons: White on Rice II - Hillary Clinton obviously thinks that a token contribution of $23,000 to one of her favorite "charities" is going to make this whole Hsu matter go away. Today her campaign made a big public production of giving $23K to charity "as soon as she found out" about the status of Mr. Hsu... They would have you believe that their reaction was: Oh, really? He belongs in jail?? Who knew? Meanwhile the Clinton campaign continues to hold onto contributions from the Paw and Hyung Young "Daniel" Lee families, which add up to a total of $69,100--even though the Wall Street Journal article Monday made it quite clear that, for example, donations from the Paw family--whose head of household is a Postal Worker who makes about $50K per year--were obviously funneled to the campaign via Hsu. (READ MORE)
Bill Roggio: NATO airstrike kills Taliban Commander Mullah Berader - US and Afghan forces continue to strike hard at the Taliban's leaders in southern Afghanistan. The US Air Force killed Mullah Berader, a senior Taliban general and leader, after British and Afghan forces called in an air strike on Taliban fighters attempting to ambush their patrol in Helmand province. Afghanistan's Ministry of Defense has confirmed Berader's death in the fighting. (READ MORE)
Baron Bodissey: Terror-in-Law - Geilenkirchen is a modest German town in the state of Nordrhein-Westfalen, hard on the western border with the Netherlands. Just outside of Geilenkirchen is a NATO airbase named after the town. Geilenkirchen Air Base is home to NATO’s E-3A AWACS aircraft and their support systems . The Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) is designed to carry out airborne detection and surveillance of enemy missiles and aircraft from a great distance. Seventeen E3-A AWACS aircraft are based at Geilenkirchen. Not surprisingly, Geilenkirchen, like so many other NATO installations in Germany, has repeatedly been the focus of European anti-war demonstrators. (READ MORE)
MountainRunner: Weapons that create and shape perceptions - Modern war is fought over strategic influence more than territory. Win the first and the second is gained easily. In this struggle, we are battling over perceptions and in the hyper-communications environment today, facts do not matter. We risk tactical and strategic success as we rely on a lawyerly conduct in war resting on finely tuned arguments of why and why not. Human nature in a crisis doesn't care about the finer points that exist further up Maslow's pyramid, human nature falls back on the quick response of emotions and are vulnerable to rumor and simple distortions, especially those reinforced over time. (READ MORE)
Right Wing Nut House: Just Who is Mr. Hsu? - Bizarre times we live in, no doubt about it. While the left obsesses over the bathroom antics of a relatively obscure Idaho senator and the social right gets their opportunity to wag a finger in disapproval at the hapless hypocritical closet case, a genuine scandal involving a Democratic fundraiser who has donated hundreds of thousands of dollars of his own money and raised hundreds of thousands more all for Democratic candidates perks along growing stranger by the hour. (READ MORE)
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